Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.444

v1.c3.s17.444

Tejana denotes in the Rigveda¹ a rod or staff of reed used for measuring a field. In the Atharvaveda the sense of ‘bamboo’ is found twice,² the bamboo being specified in the second passage as ‘of the spring’ (*vāsantika*); more particularly it denotes the shaft of an arrow,³ a sense often found in later Vedic texts.⁴